Octavo, six engraved plates in the first work, and one folding engraved plate by Bauer in the second work; contemporary half calf (restored).One of remarkably few works by Joseph Banks to have appeared in print. Despite...

Octavo, 32 pp. including the half-title, with a folding plate; with the half-title in "Mackaness" morocco, with the Mackaness bookplate.One of remarkably few works published by Banks, but an apt demonstration of his wide range of scientific interest...

Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed.In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements...

Large octavo, includes many colour and black & white plates; original illustrated wrappers.French language edition of the personal journal of Nicolas Baudin, carefully edited and prepared for publication with special appendices and numerous colour plates of original scientific and...

Handcoloured engraving, 160 x 230mm.A fine rendering of the Cassowary from the account of the Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific.The expedition's artist was Charles-Alexandre Lesueur who set out on Baudin's expedition as an assistant gunner, and it wasn't until mass desertions, including all...

Octavo, with 107 wood-engravings; finely bound in contemporary red morocco gilt decorated, edges fully gilt, early inked manuscript note on endpaper.First edition. The menagerie in the Tower of London had been established in the mid-thirteenth century at which time...

London: John Van Voorst, 1860. Octavo, with eight chromolithographic plates (including the frontispiece), in the publisher's blind blocked purple cloth.The best general account of Australian natural history at the time of its publication, and still a useful work. Bennett was particularly interested in the Platypus and his account of...

Octavo, with eight handcoloured lithograph plates by George French Angas; in green half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.First edition: a handsome copy of this popular book by the well-travelled naturalist. "The drawings, with a few exceptions, are from the...

Two broadsheets (400 x 243 mm.; 218 x 380 mm.).Two wonderful German broadsheets, advertising a travelling zoo. Among the fascinating animals listed as being exhibited, the Australian dingo makes a rather surprising inclusion.The 1840s and 1850s had witnessed a distinct...

12 pp., caption-title; tipped into a modern binding of quarter linen and boards.The renowned French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on the platypus: an important study, read to the Académie des Sciences and set up.....

London: E.W. Janson, 1874. Quarto, with three lithograph plates; in original cloth-backed printed green boards.This study of the butterflies and moths of New Zealand, made as part of the scientific surveys during the voyage of the Erebus and Terror, was issued separately, but also formed part of the general...

Single leaf from a child's scrapbook, 215 x 260 mm., the engravings and captions neatly cut-out and pasted down, views to both sides of the sheet; foxing and tears to the edges with marginal loss, but charming. Framed.Marvellous page from a....

circa 1845. Handcoloured zincograph, with accompanying page of text attached; mounted, approx 270 x 210mm.The Labichea is an Australian plant found on the Western Coast and also parts of Sydney.From The Floral Cabinet or Magazine of Exotic Botany by Knowles & Westcott.